Actually sorta pissed off! Back in 1962-63 radio stations were banning that song..it was too, 'un-American' was the excuse. It countered the status quo.....it was upsetting, and 'not quite the same, as the Kingston trio'..(a nice 'safe group' of folk singers). So I tell some of you the truth on here, and in the post deleted, joked with Amos), and I guess it wasn't 'Safe' enough....I know my posts run contrary to the 'Johnnie come lately crowd'..I know they are unsettling...but so was the spirit of the earlier protest songs!!!!! A whole group of you are as 'asleep' as the parents of the 'baby boomers' were, when that came out!...You've lost your edge, and stand for being a watered down version, of what it was folk singers did, in turning this country upside down, back them!..Now you ARE the 'establishment'...and a far more complacent version of the first!!!! Where's your spark??? Too busy, being what you rebelled at?????? Too Afraid?? Jeez! Shake things up a little! There was a time when we stood up against the corruption in our government, and forced government policy to end a war....now?...now, its a joke! we're still arguing about the bullshit that is being fed to us, by the same people, and think you're accomplishing something! Ya' might as well get so mad, you'd throw your Martinis across the pool!
Art, Remember the 'Ice House'?? Lloyd Thaxton?? the concerts at Griffith Park? 'The Troubadour'?? 'The Ranch'(recording studio, in Malibu)? Hangin' in Topanga, with Crosby, with his orange Harley??..and who it was, The Byrds sang back up for?? Yeah, I was there!!..So I'm not overly impressed, that its all gone soft! Actually, we may have met back then!! We've all just gave up, for the 'easy life' and gone through, husbands, wives, and families, with complete abandon, because frankly, some just got too fucking lame, to handle it! Remember the expression, "Turn on a lame, and what you get, is a 'turned on lame'"???
Oh well, had a great time...never sold out!!!!!!!!!!!!!